Definitions
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- noun A group of connected railroad
tracks used for storing and sorting railroad equipment.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ratner has offered the MTA tens of millions of dollars in added inducements such as railyard improvements to persuade the nation's largest mass transit system to sell him the property.
USATODAY.com - Roundup: Nets closer to N.Y. move; Voskuhl traded 2005
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Max Whittaker/Prime for The Wall Street Journal Locomotive inspector Juan Schulz, examining a locomotive at a railyard in Roseville, Calif., has worked at Union Pacific for 17 years.
Help Wanted: In Unexpected Twist, Some Skilled Jobs Go Begging Ben Casselman 2011
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I was reading it after it first came out and an army buddy asked about it - he'd worked on the railroad, and he recognized the railyard key hanging from Cassady's belt in the cover photo.
Kerouac the Writer 2009
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Firm CEO Bruce Ratner told the Wall Street Journal the money would be used a new railyard (which the developer is obligated to build) and perhaps to pay off a land loan.
Norman Oder: Green Cards for Sale? Atlantic Yards Backers Seek Chinese Investors Norman Oder 2010
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Only by redefining the "project" as the arena, related infrastructure, and the railyard, with a cost of $1.448 billion -- and attaching the railyard to already funded components -- does the risk to investors seem diminished.
Norman Oder: Green Cards for Sale? Atlantic Yards Backers Seek Chinese Investors Norman Oder 2010
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We jolted to a stop, an attendant pried the door half open, and we stumbled out into a high-ceilinged, man-made chamber that housed a railyard for miniature ore trains.
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Just as he plans a railyard robbery with Bronco, he enters into a touching relationship with the 15-year-old Irene, whose father is serving time for armed robbery.
Bronco Bullfrog 2010
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The "project" also involves already-funded infrastructure and a yet-to-be built railyard.
Norman Oder: Anatomy of a Green Card Pitch: In China, Atlantic Yards Backers Rely on the Distraction of Basketball Norman Oder 2010
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The "project" also involves already-funded infrastructure and a yet-to-be built railyard.
Norman Oder: Anatomy of a Green Card Pitch: In China, Atlantic Yards Backers Rely on the Distraction of Basketball Norman Oder 2010
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Carting along her son and her big 4x5 camera, with its heavy tripod and stacks of sheet film, Kurland has climbed mountains and braved railyard guards to follow and document her "Gypsy American nomads," as she describes the people she's photographed.
Photographer Justine Kurland on a road trip with her son, capturing life along the rails 2010
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